Saturday, October 31, 2009
My girlfriend Shelly & I decided it would be fun to put on a Halloween party this year and invite some of our other friends. The Gerlings, Jones joined in on the fun with us & the Calls, and we all put together a frightful menu of Chicken Chili, Spinach Lasagna, Garlic Soup, Shrimp Wontons, Green Salad, Witches' Brew Drink, Ghost Cake, Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bars with Cinnamon Ice Cream, and Pumpkin & Ghost cookies. It was all SO yummy!!
Above is one of the wooden signs Shelly made... SO cute! =)
Before we ate, the kids played a few games. The first game was a 'Frankenstein Walk,' where they walked around the swing set between orange cones. They were put into two teams to race each other... they both did so well though, they actually tied! =) Here's Kaden's best friend, Braydon (a SWAT team member in the black) and Kaden (Megatron in the gray) neck and neck... they LOVED it!!
Here's Kaleb's Frankenstein Walk. He did great! If you look closely, you can see his nose poking through, haha!!
Shelly put together a really cute ghost scavenger hunt, which sent the kids all over her house searching for dum-dums made into little ghosts.
They all had such a great time taking turns reading the clues that sent them into the laundry room, to the fireplace, to the kitchen... and here they are "where the ghosts bathe."
After we ate, we had a toilet paper costume contest. Kaden laughed just about the entire time while I was wrapping him. Here he is... ninja Kaden!
Here are all the creative costumes everyone came up with... from left to right, Lydia was a nun, Kaden was a ninja, Braydon was a bride (hahaha... look at that pout, Shelly! =), Ethan was Pippy Longstocking, and Elin was a Ninja Turtle. SO fun!!!!!
This photo is just too funny of Bumblebee & Mikaela... Bumblebee's eyes look as though they are about to pop right out of his head! =)
After the games, I gave all the kids glowsticks and we turned out the lights. The Calls turned on a strobe light, which was awesome, and I told them a few scary stories... well, they were kind of scary. =) The kids loved it!
After our bellies were full, we were tuckered out from all the fun games & scared out of our minds =) ... we went trick-or-treating. The weather has been SO sporadic down here over the last several weeks... it was in the 80's one week and dropped into the 50's that weekend, rained the entire next two weeks (which is unusual since it rains year 'round), and went back up into the upper 70's and low 80's these last two weeks with a cooler weekend. So Shelly and I wished aloud that we wanted it to be cool again on Halloween. What were we thinking?? It was even colder then last year... with an addition to chilly wind and drizzle! So we made our way walking around the neighborhood and 'parented up!' Haha... just a little inside joke!! =)
While we were trick-or-treating, we came to a house that decorated their garage into a haunted house and the kids received their candy after they walked through. There were a few people inside that jumped out so it was pretty scary for little ones. Afterwards, poor Kaleb was crying and said, "They just want to scare the Autobots, Optimus Prime just isn't up for that!" We all couldn't help but laugh... he's SUCH a little cutie pie!!!!
The kids really did have the BEST Halloween ever, thanks to everyone's efforts, so thank you girls for all of your time into making it a great night! I know us adults had a really good time too!!!
We hope you all had a VERY HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!
